The Dark Side of Early Soviet Childhood, 1917-1941

Boris B. Gorshkov is Assistant Professor of History at Kennesaw State University, USA. He is the author of Peasants in Russia from Serfdom to Stalin (Bloomsbury, 2018), Russia’s Factory Children, Society, and the State: Childhood, Apprenticeship and Law, 1800-1917 (2009) and A Life under Russian Serfdom: Memoirs of Savva Dmitrievich Purlevskii, 1800-68 (2005).

List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Introduction: Street Children, Problem, Historiography, Discourses and Evidence
1. Street Children before the Bolshevik Revolution: Prelude to the Crisis
2. Soviet Street Children: Definition, Identity, Demography, Geography and Origins
3. A Revolutionary Childhood: Ideals, Declarations, Challenges, and Realities
4. New Economic Policy: Cheka Comes to Play
5. A “Happy Soviet Childhood”: Stalinist Childhood Revisited
Epilogue: Vanished Childhood in the early Soviet Union
Conclusions
Appendix
Bibliography
Index